Chas Wade wrote:
Last week I was looking for a place to fish, and the wind was calm so I
drove over to a favorite spot on the Columbia and was a bit surprised
to find the carp beginning to school. A couple hours of fishing with
my friend Jaime only produced one fish, but it was the biggest one I've
ever caught, including the fish I used to shoot with bow and arrow
years ago in Illinois.

It came up behind the clouser tied bunny and rubber legged thing I was
using, and I set the hook when I saw her suck in the fly. Not a huge
fight, a couple runs some splashing, maybe 3 minutes total. She was
very quiet for the pictures, and then swam off when I let her go.

I posted a picture on abpf

Chas
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Nice Carp!

There's some variation on how they fight but overall I found them to be
extremely tough dogged fighters. When I lived up in Lake George, I used
to fish for Pike in the Spring. It was the same time that the Carp were
roiling in the shallows. The Pike would hide in the shallow roily water
waiting for a trout to come by. The tactic was to find the roily areas
and fish them. The fishing wasn't fast but the fish were big with an
average Pike close to 20 pounds.

One day I hooked a fish I felt sure was a State record Pike. On the
strike it blasted out to the depths, nearly spooling me several times.
After a lone battle, I finally landed the fish and it was a Carp of
about 20 pounds. Put ALL the Pike I had caught to shame.

Willi